It’s hard to imagine anyone happier than Jordan Peele after last night’s Oscars. His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it “wasn’t going to work,” won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor. But, after…

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is an insane movie. Rather than produce a safe and predictable sequel to his 1984 comedy horror, director Joe Dante decided to throw every wacky idea he could think of into a 106-minute live-action cartoon that features Hulk Hogan speaking directly into camera, Leonard Maltin being murdered…

A huge part of the comic appeal of Key & Peele’s “best friend” sketch, in which a stereotypically terse male hangout is interrupted by one guy singing an ode of magisterial fealty to his pal, is the sincerity in Jordan Peele’s performance, the practiced earnestness of his singing and the way woodwinds and treacly…

Keegan-Michael Key was the big guest on Tuesday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and why wouldn’t he be? Apart from being the taller, balder half of one of the best sketch shows ever, Key is—like his comedy life partner Jordan Peele—killing it at essentially everything he does these days. There to promote his new…

Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key seem to be doing well for themselves in a post-Key & Peeleworld, starring in and directing movies, and reaping the rewards of being two of the funniest guys currently working in TV and film. But one thing was destined to pull the two comedians back to two of their most popular…

Tracy Morgan is back, and TBS has him. Three years after the end of NBC’s 30 Rock and two years after his horrific car accident, the comedian is returning to weekly television. The Atlanta-based basic cable network has ordered 10 episodes of a still-untitled, half-hour, single-camera comedy series starring and…

The 1980s were some weird, vexing years for The Godfather Of Soul. Then in his 50s, music legend James Brown saw his career overshadowed by a generation of hip-hop and R&B performers whose music he had profoundly influenced. When Brown was in the public eye back then, it was usually for legal, marital, and substance…

Previously in our oral history of Comedy Central: Comedy kingdoms united, South Park rose, and The Daily Show spoke truth to power. In this installment: Dave Chappelle conquers the world (then abdicates his throne), a visit from the Reno Sheriff’s Department, Stephen Colbert introduces the world to “truthiness,” the …

Proving there’s truly a place for everything on the internet, it turns out there’s a YouTube show on which celebrities answer interview questions while eating increasingly spicy hot wings. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the latest performers to visit First We Feast’s Hot Ones show, where they’re on hand to…

Keegan-Michael Key, a beanstalk of nervous energy, and Jordan Peele, stockier and smoother, fit the profile of a classic comedy duo; they earn plenty of laughs just standing side by side. But they’re also sketch-comedy chameleons, meaning that they rarely settle into a static dynamic. On their brilliant, now-defunct…

Like Amy Schumer before them, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are making the leap from Comedy Central sketch show to major motion-picture comedy. On Key & Peele, they frequently flexed their genre-skewing muscles, so it’s no surprise that their first feature, Keanu, is a take on the…

Unlike many other annual observances, such as Christmas and Halloween, Tax Day does not have many well-known songs associated with it. This year, thanks to April 15 falling on a Friday, the deadline to file taxes or apply for an extension has been graciously moved to Monday. The procrastinators of the world still have…

At first, the brief opening theme to ABC’s The Muppets appears to be exactly the same as when we last checked in on Jim Henson’s creations: Kermit walks to craft services for some coffee, only to see his coworkers swarm the table and pick over the refreshments in hyper-speed until there’s nothing left. Right as he’s…

With Super Bowl 50 now only five days away, it’s time to prepare ourselves for all of the competitive advertising and related content, while also hoping for the introduction of another awkwardly-dancing killing machine at halftime (no, not Katy Perry). There will of course be several sanctioned spots from automakers…

Keanu, the first film from Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele after the end of their much-loved Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele is a tale of deception, danger, lawlessness, valor—and a kitten in a do-rag. When Peele’s character gets dumped by his girlfriend, he finds solace in the soft fur of an adorable…

The A.V. Club’s list of 2015’s best TV programming came together with the input of more than 30 staff members and contributors, who singled out 105 different shows, miniseries, specials, and telefilms as the year’s best. (A few quick words on the voting process: Participating writers were asked to make a top 15 list,…